It’s time for the Jay annual top performances list. It’s a habit that I am keen on preserving as years go by, even though some years are more difficult than others. In...

Director: Emily MkrtichianWriter: Emily MkrtichianStars: Sose Balasanyan, Gayane Hambardzumyan, Svetlana Harutunyan Synopsis: Four women of Artsakh face war's aftermath, build lives amid uncertainty until another war interrupts; some take arms, others flee as...

One Battle After Another is a very American movie, in the way that Die Hard, Air Force One, Mission Impossible, and You’ve Got Mail represent how avid filmgoers envisioned America in the...

Kiss of the Spider Woman is one of my favorite films of the year. It’s a testament to the power of art, imagination, non-normative gender expression, and femininity to seek freedom. The...

Director: Gilles LegardinierWriters: Christel Henon, Gilles LegardinierStars: John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Émilie Dequenne Synopsis: A widowed British businessman takes the job as a butler of a manor house in France to keep memories...

In this interview, I talk with Egyptian music composer Hesham Nazih and his work on the new miniseries Eyes of Wakanda! Eyes of Wakanda is the new animated series set in the...

Sinners is a multitude of universes contained within one another. Each and every one of them opens like a Russian doll to reveal the other. It’s a neo-Western. It’s a horror movie....

In this interview, I talk with the directors of the documentary Naked Ambition Dennis Scholl and Kareem Tabsch! Naked Ambition is the first documentary to deeply explore Bunny Yeager's world, who made...